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July 2009

Celebrity imposters have been a problem on Twitter, so much so that the company launched its “Verified Accounts” program to add some credibility to those that claim to be well-known public figures. @OfficialJonah, which billed itself as the official ...

This post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and provid...

Google Friend Connect, the relatively simple service that lets your website’s visitors engage in social activities with their Google accounts (as well as those from AOL, Twitter, Plaxo and others) and contact lists, is adding support for dozens of la...

Gail Sideman is a publicist that specializes in generating exposure for sports and authors. She is @PUBLISIDE on Twitter and can be found on Facebook. Last month, New York Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher mobilized his 470,000-plus Twitter followers t...

Even though incredibly basic, Gmail Tasks has provided a simple way for Gmail users to create to-do lists while processing email. Today, Tasks is graduating from Labs to become a default email feature accessible under the "Contacts" link. Tasks gradu...

How do you measure the value of a visitor to your website? If the visitor is there to watch video, perhaps the most useful metric is the amount of time they spend viewing it before navigating elsewhere. As it turns out, users who visit videos from Tw...

This is quite curious. Have you seen the new Palm Pre commercial? It's making its way around the web and your television and it's certainly a head-scratcher. The ad appears to be a follow-up to this one, essentially trying to convey the message that ...

Bing was the first of the big search engines to integrate Twitter into results, albeit, not in the most exciting of implementations. Today, Microsoft’s fledgling search tool is doing a bit more with Twitter, launching BingTweets, a separate site that...

Jun Loayza is the President of SocialMediaMarketing.com, a company focused on building social media campaigns for companies. He is also the co-founder of Viralogy.com, which measures and ranks your social influence online. He loves to meet other youn...

Online live video has become one of the most heated spaces in social media, with seemingly constant updates from Justin.tv, Ustream, and others. You may remember that Ustream completely redesigned in April to better utilize Twitter and Mogulus rebran...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

In only a few hours, throngs of people will be lined up at cinemas across the US and the UK as Potter, Weasley, and Granger once again duel evil on the big screen. Yes, I am talking about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. If the buzz and the su...

Do you remember Twitter one year ago? It was 1/10th the size it is today and its default URL shortener was TinyURL, the most popular tool of its kind for years. On July 14th, 2008 though, a new rival was born: Bit.ly, which not only shortened links (...

One of the best and most popular 3rd party apps for Twitter is TwitPic, the top service for sharing pictures via Twitter and Twitter apps such as Tweetie. Twitpic and its competitors (most notably Yfrog) have created a new photography-sharing ecosyst...

If the Sotomayor confirmation hearings have you glued to the TV this week - or you don't have access to a TV at work and still want to follow along, you'll be glad to know that C-Span has set up a live video stream plus live blogging. While it stops ...

Start pages are part of a long tradition of web surfing. They can provide you with all the information you want in one place, giving you a start portal to the rest of the web. In fact, we recently provided a guide to start pages in our article 7 Ways...

While the desktop may not be inherently social, a slew of desktop apps have helped bridge that gap: Xobni, TweetDeck, and Seesmic Desktop being some of the best known. Xobni in particular helps reorganize your Outlook inbox with search functionality ...

NASA now gives anyone the opportunity to send their name to Mars. Just enter your name, country and zip code into the form, and your name - along with many others - will be included in a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover which will be he...

This is serious. Twitter has a big security problem. Let's rephrase that - most aspects of Twitter - user accounts, admin accounts, various personal accounts of important people in the company's hierarchy, Evan Williams, are (or at least, have been) ...

Secunia reports of a new, unpatched, and highly critical security hole in Firefox 3.5 (possibly in other versions, too) that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when process...

Sharing links is central to the Twitter experience - it helps others find out about interesting news, useful guides, and important updates. And with retweeting, these links spread fast. But what if you're not a big link sharer or don't have the time ...

If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on ...

Amazon has put Windows 7 up for preorder in the UK, and the sales so far have been amazing. In the first 8 hours, BBC reports, more copies of Windows 7 were sold than those of Windows Vista in its entire 17 week pre-order period. Yes, Windows 7 is so...

Google Voice - the "Gmail for your phone" - might not be available to everyone yet, but as of today, it already has its own BlackBerry and Android applications. The big deal with both of these new applications is that they make placing a call with yo...

Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com. Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university pu...

We’ve seen what a huge impact Facebook and Twitter integration can have on Web video broadcasts, ranging from the Obama inauguration, to the Michael Jackson memorial, to The Jonas Brothers. Now, those same types of features are moving to the living r...

Facebook grew from 100 million to 200 million users in just 8 months. Now, the company has announced that it has gone from 200 million to 250 million in just over 3 months. In other words, despite its already massive size, Facebook’s growth actually ...

As we reported this morning, there are currently a number of potentially sensitive internal Twitter documents floating around the Web, a result of the hacking of an employee’s account. Not surprisingly, Twitter has taken to its blog this afternoon to...

We've been following the viral hit United Breaks Guitars over the past week, a comedic music video that tells the very real and sad story of Dave Carroll who flew United in the spring of 2008. Long story short, Carrol flew United Airlines with his ba...

Boxee's entertainment dashboard is revolutionizing how we consume internet media (some of us even use it on our hacked Apple TVs), but even with the new version released for Windows and the cool new applications, Boxee has been lacking one key featur...

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